The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.